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Ivano-Frankivs'k
 (09-010.18-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 450
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Date: May 14, 2003 to May 15, 2003

Participants: Katz, Genrikh Moiseevich; Bukshtein, Froim Kalmanovich; Rabbi Moyshe Kolesnik. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler.

Location recorded: Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ivano Frankivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Genrikh Moiseevich Katz. (Part 3 of 3. See MDV 448 and MDV 449)

The second part of the tape includes footage of the Ivano-Frankivsk synagogue.

00:00:00 The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Genrikh Moiseevich Katz. Katz answers a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire.
00:13:47 Katz sings well-known Yiddish songs, including “Sha shtil” and “Afn pripichek.”
00:16:57 The second part of the tape includes footage of the Ivano-Frankivsk synagogue. The camera records outside footage of the synagogue, before the team enters the building and talks to Rabbi Moyshe Kolesnik. The camera then records the morning service.
00:25:32 The team speaks with a number of congregants, including Froim Kalmanovich Bukshtein, about Yiddish dialects and regions. A congregant from Proskurov (today Khmelnytskyy) talks about his family members that perished during the war. He also briefly addresses his education.
00:39:02 The team continues informal conversations in Russian and Yiddish with the congregants.
00:48:20 Bukshtein reads stories from a Soviet Yiddish story book and discusses Yiddish newspaper articles; he received from France during the Soviet period.
00:56:29 End of Recording.